Gallery

Joseph Wright of Derby, 'Untitled, known as A Philosopher Giving that Lecture on the Orrery, in which a Lamp is put in place of the Sun or The Orrery', Derby Museum and Art Gallery, c. 1766.

A Philosopher Giving that Lecture on the Orrery, c. 1766.

James Gillray and Hannah Humphries, ‘What can little T.O. do? - Why drive a Phaeton and Two!!-‘, 1801, The British Museum, 1851,0901.1052.

What can little T.O. do? - Why drive a Phaeton and Two!!-‘, 1801

George Stubbs, 'The Milbanke and Melbourne Families', c.1769. The National Gallery, NG6429.

The Milbanke and Melbourne Families, c.1769

George Stubbs, ‘A Gentleman Driving a Lady in a Phaeton’, 1787, The National Gallery, NG3529.

A Gentleman Driving a Lady in a Phaeton, 1787

George Clarke, ‘Design for a Crane Neck Phaeton carriage’, c.1810, Barker & Co., London, The Science Museum, 1942-47/83.

Design for a Crane Neck Phaeton carriage, c.1810

William Hogarth, ‘A Midnight Modern Conversation’, Yale Center for British Art, B1981.25.351, c.1732.

A Midnight Modern Conversation, c.1732

‘Tin-glazed earthenware bowl’, Manchester City Art Gallery, 1923.241, 1780-1790.

Tin-glazed earthenware bowl, 1780-1790

Lawrence Harrisson, ‘A Midnight Modern Conversation’, Manchester City Art Gallery, 1923.261, 1748.

A Midnight Modern Conversation, 1748

Emanuel de Witte, 'A Sermon in the Old Church in Delft', c. 1650 oil on oak, 73.2 x 59.5 cm. Purchased 1983 with the assistance of a grant from the Government of Canada under the terms of the Cultural Property Export and Import Act. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Photo: NGC.

'A Sermon in the Old Church in Delft, c. 1650

At St Albinus, Ermatingen (Swiss Thurgau), the font has had two basins for centuries, one serving Catholics (at the front), the other the Reformed community. Picture by the author.

At St Albinus, Ermatingen (Swiss Thurgau), the font

Carington Bowles after Robert Dighton the Elder, ‘The Pit Door/ La Porte du Parterre’, Met Museum, 69.584.10, 1784

The Pit Door/ La Porte du Parterre, 1784

‘Playbills printed on silk, prefaced by note by Banks’, The British Museum, ©The Trustees of the British Museum, 1612984365.

Playbills printed on silk, undated

Charles Burney [collector], ‘Burney Collection. ‘Theatrical Register.’ A collection of playbills of London theatres, chiefly of Drury Lane, Covent Garden and the Haymarket’, British Library, 937.b-e, 1774-1777.

Theatrical Register, 1774-1777

Paroled Frédéric Guérin letter, 1812

Paroled Frédéric Guérin letter, 1812

'Certificate of Prisoner of War on parole at Montgomery', Powysland Museum & Montgomery Canal Centre, GTJ23569, 1 January 1812.

Certificate of Prisoner of War on parole at Montgomery, 1812

Thomas Rowlandson, 'Bodmin Cornwall: French Prisoners on Parole', Yale Center for British Art, B1975.3.145, 1795.

'Bodmin Cornwall: French Prisoners on Parole, 1795

'Hampshire parole register', The National Archives, Kew. Ref.: ADM 103/551 1795-1797.

Hampshire parole register, 1795-1797

Captain John Durrant, 'A watercolour of Portchester Castle', Hampshire Cultural Trust, HMCMS:FA1990.23.129, 1802-1813.

Portchester Castle, 1802-1813

Edward Matthew Ward, ‘Doctor Johnson in the Ante-Room of the Lord Chesterfield Waiting for an Audience’, 1748, Tate, N00430.

Doctor Johnson in the Ante-Room of the Lord Chesterfield, 1748

Thursday, March 1, 1711. The first issue of The Spectator, 1711. Printed on both sides on a single sheet of paper. From the website: The Open Anthology of Literature in English. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons

The first issue of The Spectator, 1711

‘Pair of cotton pockets’, c. 1820, Metropolitan Museum of Art, inv. 2009.300.3472. "Pocket belonging and worn by my grandmother Ann Isabel Hale 1820" (C) Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Peyton R. H. Washburn, 1942.

Pair of cotton pockets, c. 1820

Johan Sebastian Müller, ‘Vauxhall Gardens, shewing the Grand Walk at the entrance of the garden, and the Orchestra, with the Musick playing’, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 1755.

Vauxhall Gardens, shewing the Grand Walk and the Orchestra, with the Musick playing, 1755

Joseph Severn, ‘Posthumous Portrait of Shelley Writing Prometheus Unbound’, 1845, Keats-Shelley Memorial House, Rome, Italy. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_Severn_-_Posthumous_Portrait_of_Shelley_Writing_Prometheus_Unbound_1845.jpg

Posthumous Portrait of Shelley, 1845

‘Title pages of the ca. 1788 edition of the first volume of the collected edition of Addison and Steele’s The Spectator’, Wikimedia Commons, circa 1788.

The Spectator, circa 1788

‘La Constitution au Club des Jacobins’, late XVIIIth century, Wiki Commons. https://www.librairiegiard.com/photos/medium/34334.jpg

La Constitution au Club des Jacobins, late 18th century

Joseph Josiah Dodd and Charles Tattershall Dodd, ‘View of Tonbridge During the Late Election, after 1832’, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, B1977.14.20189, after 1832.

‘View of Tonbridge During the Late Election, after 1832

Henry Rumsey Forster, The Pocket Peerage of Great Britain and Ireland (London: David Bogue, 1852).

The Pocket Peerage of Great Britain and Ireland, 1852

Joseph Ducreux, 'Pierre-Ambroise-François Choderlos de Laclos', © RMN-Grand Palais (Château de Versailles) - Photo Gérard Blot, INV 27625, Recto, XVIIIe siècle.

Pierre-Ambroise-François Choderlos de Laclos, 18th cent.